Honest Trailers

Another a Honest Trailer we didn't know we want. The 1980s Incredible Hulk Tv movies featuring Thor.

Honest Trailers | Ms. Marvel

"Damage Control: the department Disney activates when Shuri posts an anti-vax video." Oof. Shots fired.

I was a little worried but they took it fairly easy on this show, mainly calling out the weak villains and Disney's lack of faith in it that caused it to lose viewers to Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Also, I totally didn't catch that both Damage Control and Deever/Cleary have "DC" as their initials. Stop poking them, they're suffering enough!

Edited by Fighteer on Jul 26th 2022 at 1:45:39 PM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

She doesn't seem as happy and bubbly as she is in the comics.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

Hmm? I guess not everyone's watched the show. Iman Vellani is an absolute delight as Kamala Khan. She's so good.

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

So why is Kamala a mutant and why the glowy arms?

Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).

In a nutshell, Marvel retconned her abilities for a couple of reasons:

• Reed Richards, who is coming in a future MCU film (and puts in a brief cameo in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness), has a prior claim on being stretchy.
• Stretchy powers are very hard to animate believably in live-action on a limited CG budget.
• Kamala's powers are upgraded to cosmic-tier because she will appear in the upcoming MCU film The Marvels alongside Carol Danvers and Monica Rambeau, and she needs to be able to stand on equal footing. ^note (She's not at that level in the show, but there are hints that she'll acquire a major boost in the film and that boost will be tied to her origin story here.)

If you watch the show, you will see that they do still give her "stretchy" abilities, but as an extension of her hard-light powers rather than via literal shapeshifting. She forms constructs that make her arms and legs bigger.

Her power origin is also changed to be more consistent with the theme of MCU Phases 4-6. There's all this cosmic, multiversal stuff coming and she's a part of that. The Inhuman element was dropped because of the unpopularity of the non-canon TV show and the ongoing bad blood within Marvel over Fox holding the X-Men IP for so long. Correspondingly, making her the first official mutant in the MCU is designed to kickstart that storyline.

It's worth noting that, in the original comic concept for Kamala Khan, she was going to be a mutant, but this happened right as Word of God came down to stop writing mutant stories and shift to Inhumans, so her origins were changed. Making her a mutant in the MCU is very much in line with the intent of the character.

Edited by Fighteer on Jul 28th 2022 at 2:22:04 PM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

My urge to balk at changes from the source material like upgrading Kamala so she can be part of the big cosmic space fight going on is grinding against my tolerance of media like Cowboy Bebop and Resident Evil that leap away from the source material like coked up noncanonical rabbits.

And truth be told I always felt the Inhumans were bargain bin X-Men lame to begin with. I'm kind of glad they've beem discarded. Characters like Kamala and Black Bolt are fun to see around, but not with all of the additional baggage.

So, makes sense I guess.

Edited by FOFD on Jul 28th 2022 at 5:29:48 AM

Akira Toriyama (April 5 1955 - March 1, 2024).

Honest Trailer for RRR. Easily my film of the year so far.

Honest Trailers | Top Gun: Maverick

I guess they also liked this movie, since they're not finding a lot of faults in it, mainly pointing out that it's a vehicle for Tom Cruise to play Tom Cruise. Which is, of course, absolutely valid.

My opinion is definitely in the minority: while I enjoyed TG:M, it was only after forcing my brain to shut up about how predictable the plot is and how many ways Maverick should be dead or in prison. But whoosh! crikey! pow! those flying scenes sure are amazing. Enough to overlook the film's sheer banality? YMMV.

Edited by Fighteer on Aug 30th 2022 at 2:41:55 PM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Def one of my favorite movie of the year.

Yeah, it was great fun, flaws and all.

Optimism is a duty.

Honest Trailers | Thor: Love and Thunder

Fair criticism all around, but what absolutely killed me was the final title joke: Finding Chemo. Holy shit that's dark.

Edited by Fighteer on Sep 13th 2022 at 5:59:47 AM

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Man Waititi and Thompson are never gonna live down making fun of VFX artists

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Boy they did not like that new Thor movie.

Never trust anyone who uses "degenerate" as an insult.

An Honest Trailer AND a Pitch Meeting

Man, the Twin Towers, Trump... Home Alone 2 did not age well for New Yorkers, did it?

Optimism is a duty.

I'd say Home Alone in general hasn’t aged super great.

Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.

Why do you say that?

I'll teach you a lesson about just how cruel the world can be. That's my job, as an adult.

I mean sure, the third film was meh, and I haven't touched the rest, but the first two films are still great romps. While there are elements in the second film that are a little iffy these days, the first one is definitely still a classic.

Hitokiri in the streets, daishouri in the sheets.

Mostly the "you should probably not leave your kid by themselves in this day and age" aspect.

Jason has come back to kill for Mommy.

I mean, that was also true in the nineties, just not to the same extreme as today. You still wouldn't leave your 10 year old all alone overnight back then either.

Optimism is a duty.

I really dont see how it's changed at all since the 90s.

And a take that on Rob Schneider. Either for playing the same type role over and over again or the man being an Anti-Vaxxer.

Huh. I was initially surpised by the fact that this movie wasn't covered by the channel.

Then I remembered that this is over 20 years old movie. And boy howdy, this aged amazingly.

I'm a (socialist) professional writer serializing a WWII alternate history webnovel.

What a crazy coincidence I just watched that movie yesterday .